Mehsud, who is second-in-command to Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, dismissed that claim. "Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan is a single organization," Mehsud said. "There is not such group ...

Other than Baitullah Mehsud and a handful of other local, second-tier Pakistani Taliban leaders in Swat, the record has been dismal at best. One Swati Taliban leader supposedly killed in a shootout ...

Watch more about the attack » At a news conference Monday night, Malik named the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, and his followers as the prime suspect in organizing the attack.

Members of al-Qaida and allies of Pakistani tribal leader Baitullah Mehsud were responsible for last month's assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, CIA director Michael V.